Method and means for procuring water for irrigating and other purposes.



. v I. TEILMAN. 'fMETHOD AND MEANS FOR PROCURING WATER FOR IRRIGATING AND OTHER PURPOSES. PPLIGATION FILED 1330.3, 1904.

ATTORNEYS PATENTED APR. 17, 1906.

UNiTED sraras PATENT ()FFIGE.

INGVART TEELMAN, OF FRESNO, CALIFORNIA.

METHOD AND MEANS FOR PROCURING WATER FOR lRRlGATlNG AND OTHER PURPOSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed Deceinber 3,1904. Serial No. 235,340.

1'!) in whom it may concern:

I Be it known that I, INGVARTTEILMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fresno, in the county of Fresno and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Method of and Means for Procuring Waterfor Irrigating and. other Purposes, .of which the'following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to hydraulic engineering; and its object is to rovide a new and improved means arranged to utilize the fall of water in a waterway for operating pumps employed to lift the water from a Well to the head of the waterway, the water discharged at the foot of the waterway being utilized for irrigating and other pur oses.

The invention consists, essentially, in a method whereby the water is well to the head of an inclined waterway to develop power in its downtlow in the said waterway and utilize this developed power for lifting the water from the well to the head of the inclined waterway.

The invention further consists in the means for carrying the above method into effect.

Reference is had to the accom anying drawin s, forming a part of this s )eci 'cation, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improvement; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section of one of the pumping-stations, the section being on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

On the ground A, shown in the drawings,

. is arranged a race, ditch, Hume, or like inelined waterway B, and at the head of the said waterway is arranged one or more pumping-stations (J, having pumps l) of any ap proved construction driven by electric motors F for pumping water from wells E into the head of the inclined waterway B. The waterway in its lower portion is provided with a penstock B, arranged in a ower-station G, containing a turbine or ot ier watermotor ll, driving an electric generator 1, connected by a line J with the electric motor F in a pumping-station (l to actuate the corres onding pump 1), as n'eviously explained. 'I he water discharged 'rom the water-nwtor in the lirst power-station G continues its downllow in the following section B of the waterway, and the lower end of this section tprminates in a )enstock B, arranged within another power-house G, equipped similarly to the power-house G and likewise connected lifted from a,

discharged from the last power-house being utilized for irrigating or other purposes.

It is understood that in practice the waterbearin ground may be many miles away from t 1e land to be irrigated, and the num-, ber of pumps depends on the amount of water needed; but in all cases the height to which the water in the wells E is to be lifted must be less than the fall or the combined fa ls of the water in the waterway before the water is used for irrigating purposes.

As an illustration, it is assumed that the countr up a river-bottom affords lenty of groun -water at a depth of from twenty feet and the lands to be irrigated are, say, about eight or ten miles down the valley and seventy-five feet lower than the waterground, so that by the use of, say, forty wells and centrifugal pumps of a capacity of two cubic feet each eighty cubic feet second are produced, and allowing twenty feet for any ossible seepage and evaporation there is l eft about sixty cubic feet for power at the water-wheels in the powerhouses, thus obtaining ample power and some to spare.

From the foregoing it will be seen that according to the conditions of the ground Various arrangements have to be made; but in.

all cases the power developed 1) the fall of the water in the waterway is ut' ized to enerate power, such as electricity, and W ich can be conducted back to the head of the waterway to utilize the power there for actuating pumps to raise the water from the wells to the head of the waterway, it being understood that the pumps are first started in any suitable way. It will also be seen that by the arrangement described a sufficient su ply of water for irrigatin purposes can e obtained at a comparatively small expense that is, the expense of installation and maintenance of the system.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The herein-described method of procuring water for irrigatin or other purposes, consisting in lifting wa er from one level to of water per teen to another, then conducting such water to'still electric'motors for driving the said pumps. Water-motors driven by the water in the said waterway, and located in a plane lower than 1 the head of the water in the wells and electric generators driven by the said water-m0- 1 tors and connected with the said electric niotors.

In testimony whereof I have signed in name to this specification in the presence 01' two subscribing witnesses.

INGVART TEILMAL lVitnesses:

W. SCOTT SMITH, EUGENE ANDERSON. 

